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Saturday, 28 November 2015

Hi Everyone!Here's a project I completed recently and one that I'd been itching to post online. (I already did it on my fb page but thought it's worth putting it up here). It's a busy / quiet book for my little girls. There are so many ideas online and each project is unique and beautiful in its own way. My inspiration was derived from a multitude of blogs/websites on Pinterest. Anyway, I don't think I need to do much talking here; the pictures are quite self-explanatory. I'm really really happy with the way it turned outI'm also very very grateful to all those who gave me positive feedback; it made the whole experience worth so much more. Oooh ...and my girls love it too! ;) So without further ado, here's the finished project.

This turned out to be an expensive project because I only had very limited supplies at hand, not to mention very very time-consuming. But I think the end result for me was well worth it; hopefully it will be a keepsake for my girls as they grow. Also, because of my kids' age difference (2 and 4), I tried to include a mixture of activities for both younger and older toddlers. My 4 year-old loves practicing how to tell the time and my younger one loves pulling the clothes and shoes off the doll's page :P So it has worked out well methinks.Do tell me what you think of this project and post your comments below. I would love to hear from you!xxx

Thursday, 20 August 2015

Here's a tutorial that I've been itching to share on MCW for a while now. It all started when I started looking around for a cheap way to store my thread spools efficiently.

Now I am no seamstress but I do have a small collection of spools of various colours that come in handy from time to time. Previously I had been storing these in an old shoe box. I tried a number of different homemade thread organisers including the one where you stick bamboo skewers in a foam board and then hot-glue them in and then frame it. But most of these took too much time and the eventual result was not as efficient as I would've liked.

I needed something that is compact yet roomy that can be stashed away and then taken out when needed, and that can show me my thread spools at a glance.

Enter the Box-Lid Thread Organizer!

This is a super quick organizer to make using only 4 things you've probably all got lying around your home. And if you are as clumsy as I am, it should take you all of 5 -- yes, FIVE -- minutes!

So without further ado, let's grab those supplies.

You will need:

A cardboard shoe-box lid
A long length of twine (I used cotton twine but you could use anything like jute or even nylon)
A double-hole punch
Scissors

That's it. Now I did take plenty of photographs for this to reduce verbosity. You will find that this makes it pretty self-explanatory.

Step 1

Put the lid flat on a table, hollow side up, and punch a series of holes close together along the two lengths of the lid.

Tip: it helps to hold the hole punch on its side and push it down onto the cardboard edge. Then lift the lid and jiggle the punch deeper down the edge. Otherwise you might end up with a shallow hole like I did initially.

Step 2
Once both the long sides have been punched through, start threading your twine in a zig-zag manner as shown in the pictures.

You will end up with something like this.

Step 3
Knot the twine at the top. Now back-track along your zig-zag, pulling and making it taut as you go down to the original threading hole.

Once here, keep the twine taut and snip off from the spool, leaving about 6 inches in excess. Now knot this end to the box too, making sure your zig-zags are still fairly taut.

You should end up with something like this.

That's it! Your threat organizer is ready!

Now fill it up with your spools and see how they nestle in neatly side by side.

Once full, stand back and admire your handy work.

Here I am going all ninja on it and flipping it upside down. No spools lost, woohoo!!